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The Annals of Ulster (Author: [unknown])

Year U917

U917.0

Kalends of January [...]. AD 916 alias 917.

U917.1

Snow and extreme cold and unnatural ice this year, so that
the chief lakes and rivers of Ireland were passable, and
causing death to cattle, birds and salmon. Horrible
portents also: the heavens seemed to glow with comets; and
a mass of fire appeared with thunder in the west beyond
Ireland, and it went eastwards over the sea.

U917.2

Sitriuc, grandson of Ímar, landed with his fleet at Cenn
Fuait on the coast of Laigin. Ragnall, grandson of Ímar,
with his second fleet moved against the foreigners of Loch
dá Chaech. A slaughter of the foreigners at Neimlid in Muma.
The Eóganacht and the Ciarraige made another slaughter.

U917.3

Niall son of Aed, king of Ireland, led an army of the
southern and northern Uí Néill to Munster to make war on
the heathens. He halted on the 22nd day of the month of
August at Topar Glethrach in Mag Feimin. The heathens
had come into the district on the same day. The Irish
attacked them between the hour of tierce and midday and
they fought until eventide, and about a hundred men, the
majority foreigners, fell between them. Reinforcements(?)
came from the camp of the foreigners to aid their fellows.
The Irish turned back to their camp in face of the last
reinforcement, i.e. Ragnall, king of the dark foreigners,
accompanied by a large force of foreigners. Niall son of
Aed proceeded with a small number against the heathens, so
that God prevented a great slaughter of the others through
him. After that Niall remained twenty nights encamped
against the heathens. He sent word to the Laigin that they
should lay siege to the encampment from a distance. They
were routed by Sitriuc grandson of Ímar in the battle of
Cenn Fuait, where five hundred, or somewhat more, fell. And
there fell too Ugaire son of Ailill, king of Laigin, Mael
Mórda son of Muirecán, king of eastern Life, Mael Maedóc
son of Diarmait, a scholar and bishop of Laigin, Ugrán
son of Cennéitig, king of Laíges, and other leaders and nobles.